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Alinka cara

Insecta - Diptera - Procramptonomyiidae

Taxonomy
Alinka cara was named by Krzemiński (1992). Its type specimen is YPM 16826, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Solite Corporation Quarry (YPM coll), which is in a Norian lacustrine - small siltstone in the Cow Branch Formation of North Carolina. It is the type species of Alinka.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Alinka cara Krzemiński p. 46 fig. 6
1998Alinka cara Nagatomi and Yang p. 103 figs. 4-6
2007Alinka cara Blagoderov and Grimaldi p. 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyPachyneuroideaRohdendorf 1946
familyProcramptonomyiidae
genusAlinka
speciescara

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Alinka cara Krzemiński 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (North Carolina) Alinka cara (type locality: 55493)